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Hacker News (Aug 2020)
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Neuralink project update summer 2020
8 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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New AI tool detects child sexual abuse material with ‘99% precision’
8 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Ask HN: Is the word “bot” losing its meaning?
8 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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The Big Tesla Hack: A hacker gained control over the entire fleet
8 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Externality
8 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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The tech industry is culpable for Trump
8 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Initialized Fund V
8 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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'swapping bodies' with a friend changes our sense of self
7 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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SQL Queries for Git Repositories
7 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Ask HN: What web browser engines are under active development?
7 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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How the Trump administration could "ban" TikTok
7 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Workers breathing smoke to harvest crops isn't 'resilience'–it's a broken system
7 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Pinterest Accused of Gender Bias in Suit by Former No. 2 Executive
7 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Americans Are Self-Censoring at Record Rates
7 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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NASA has patented a new route to the moon
7 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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New Zealand Can't Find Source of Its New Covid-19 Cases
7 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Reddit Censors AMA of William Binney, Former NSA Technical Director
7 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Ray tracing has failed to deliver on its promise
7 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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NJ Transit, Rutgers study UV light to rid buses of coronavirus
7 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Statement on Modernization of the Accredited Investor Definition
7 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Braket
7 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Reddit Admins Takeover My Novelty Account and Handed It to Comcast
7 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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FTC Investigating Twitter for Potential Privacy Violations
7 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Facebook blames coronavirus for failing to remove child nudity
7 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Rejected from an interview because first name is too short for internal IT
7 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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DOJ Aims to Seize 280 Cryptocurrency Accounts Used by Hackers
7 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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US Presidential Betting Odds: Far More Accurate Than the Polls
7 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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CPython destroys decade old software with inept threats
7 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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3-D Printed Statues in Central Park Shine a Light on Women Scientists
7 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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What jobs can get you remote work in 2 years if yore from a 3rd-world country?
7 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Guy Is Suing the Patent Office for Deciding an AI Can't Invent Things
7 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Non-Apology Apology
7 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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95% of Chinese Users Would Rather Give Up Their iPhones Than Lose WeChat
7 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Show HN: Next-gen sweetener that removes willpower from healthy eating
7 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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The golden age of computer user groups
7 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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OctoSQL Streaming: Adding Temporal SQL on Streams
7 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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In severe crises, governments base their decisions on what other countries do
7 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Alibaba on the Bleeding Edge of RISC-V with XT910
7 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Persuasion on networks
7 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Amazon Web Services Has Hired Four Former State CIOs
7 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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CenturyLink routing issue led to outages on Hulu, Steam, Discord, more
7 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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How can I send text messages (SMS) to a list without coding?
7 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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CMU Embedded System Lecture Notes (and Videos)
7 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Golden Age
7 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Pinephone Gets Thermal Imaging Backpack
7 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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The Current State of Exploit Development: Part 1
7 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Ann Syrdal, Who Helped Give Computers a Female Voice, Dies at 74
7 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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I confess, I'm scared of the next generation of supercomputers
7 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Families stuck at home turn to board game Catan, sending sales skyrocketing
7 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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A Nubian Kingdom Rises
7 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Ask HN: Long Term Covid-19 Complications
7 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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China Bans Free Text Editor Notepad++ – PCMag
7 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Show HN: Built by 2 people in 1 year
7 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Wordpress.com launches new P2 to take on internal communication tools
7 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Study rewrites the recent history of productive Cascade Arc volcanoes
7 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Hackers Could Use IoT Botnets to Manipulate Energy Markets
7 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Google Play Music will begin shutting down in September
7 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Having videos created for you doesn’t have to be expensive or complicated
7 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Ask HN: Avoid Manipulation of .ssh/Authorized_keys
7 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Python mmap: Improved File I/O With Memory Mapping
7 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Sushi’s Fake Tuna Problem
7 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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TikTok sues Trump administration over US ban
7 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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German princess deletes links from Google after drunk-rant on killing muslims
7 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Pcicrawler: A Python-based command-line interface tool to debug PCI issues
7 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Gut microbes shape our antibodies before we are infected by pathogens
7 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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A system for charting how “full-stack” you are
7 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Turkish Aggression Is NATO’s ‘Elephant in the Room’
7 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Google buys AR glasses company North
7 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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If Covid-19 isn’t dramatically increasing homeless deaths in SF, then what is?
7 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Apple vs. Epic Case 'Inclined' to Side with Apple on Fortnite and Epic on UE
7 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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2-Factor Authentication – A monster guide to securing accounts with 2FA
7 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Phil Schiller leaves Apple
7 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Trump says TikTok sale can go through but only if the US gets a cut
7 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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A Helpful Guide to Reading Better
7 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Electric car startup Lucid is challenging Tesla’s anti-Lidar stance
7 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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What archaeology tells us about the music and sounds made by Africa’s ancestors
7 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Need?
7 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Woolly flying squirrel spotted in Uttrakhand's Gangotri National Park
7 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Show HN: Today I Learned, tool I created to help me document things I learn
7 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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78% of H-1B Employers Offer Above Average Market Wages
7 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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YBC 7289
7 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Fear, Groupthink Drove Unnecessary Global Lockdowns – RealClearPolitics
7 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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The dirty secrets of 'clean' electric vehicles
7 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Meso-computing and meso-data: the forgotten middle
7 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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On Monopolies, Apple, and Epic
7 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Steve Jobs Insult Response – Highest Quality
7 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Is insurance more expensive in Black neighborhoods?
7 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Japanese doctor who lived to 105 – his longevity tips
7 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Ask HN: I'm building an easy-to-use video editor, tell me your pain points
7 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Show HN: A Links Crawler for News
7 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Why We Don't Learn from Experience
7 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Pandemic Making College Students Question the Price of Their Education
7 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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How This Ends. (The Pandemic)
7 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Collection of Calculus Concepts and Symbols
7 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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When Covid-19 Hit, Many Elderly Were Left to Die
7 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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New Architectures, Much Faster Chips
7 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Google Stadia and Microsoft xCloud won't come to iOS due to App Store rules
7 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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From Minecraft Tricks to Twitter Hack: A Florida Teen’s Troubled Online Path
7 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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An Arizona superintendent on safely reopening schools: 'It's a fantasy'
7 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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The reason engineers should write is to increase their influence
7 points • comment • aug 31, 2020